Known
more commonly as "SIRIUS" or "THE DOG STAR" throughout
the Eurocentric world, the brightest star in the sky has for centuries
been refered to as "TWO DOG STAR" by the Dogon tribe of West
Africa. It was from there, so their ancient stories tell us, that the Gods came forth,
bringing with them the gift of Hemp which until then had presumably been unknown
on Earth.

Better
than 11 light years away, it wasn't discovered until the mid-1800s—or at least not by modern
astronomers—that the Dog Star was actually a binary star
system—a Two Dog Star?

This
is a somewhat whimsical scene depicting a hypothetical planet in orbit
about the double star, featuring magenta clouds, gigantic upright
aquamarine crystals, cannabis and other vegetation, all centered about a
pool and a waterfall in which mystical beings occasionally reveal
themselves.

Thirty
two (32) inches in diameter by approximately one inch thick, this
Visionary wonder is rendered with acrylic paint on canvas, stretched over
a sturdy wooden hoop. I painted this one in 1998.

Jack
Daws Love My Big Quartz Sphynx >

Oil
on stretched canvas
40" x 60"

Painted
in 2006 with only a palette knife

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Pollenation

Oil on stretched
canvas
20" x 16"

After
eschewing oil paints for over 20 years, I painted this one evening
in early Spring of 2000 in less than an hour and a half!

Part
of a series painted "en plein air" in Ashland's Lithia
Park in the year 2000, sometime around the first of June. The
creek was flowing strong beneath a brand new bridge (the flood of
1998 destroyed the old one), the rhododendrons were in full bloom,
and there were kids and hippies and hippy-kids and just about
everbody else hanging out on the lawn, just across a stone wall at
my back, between myself and the duck pond, singing songs, playing
guitar and smoking marijuana. I was actually weed-free for better
than a month at that time, having begun what would evolve into a
two and a half year fast from the sacred herb.

Acrylic
on stretched canvas, 9" x 12".

These
are the Blues Police, or I suppose I should say this is

'The
Blues Police'

which I painted mostly while on the road to and from Eugene in
1997, dealing with a pseudo-domestic crisis which erupted less than
a week before I was scheduled for a First Friday exhibit at Listen
Here.

An odd
shape and size, the circular part is 32 inches in diameter
(stretched on one of two wooden hoops I picked up at the Goodwill
for a quarter apiece) backed by a pentagon, 26 inches on each side
and fashioned from ordinary stretcher bars.

YES,
that's Captain Belchfire in the middle!

Bilbo
and the Trolls

Acrylic
on stretched canvas, 16" x 20", 1989.

My second
painting of this subject matter, taken from J.R.R. Tolkien's The
Hobbit, the first having been destroyed in an apartment fire
five years before. A sentimental favorite, I sort of missed
it so I painted it again!

Stairway to
Middle Earth

Another Tolkien
inspired masterpiece dating back to around 1988. Actually, it also
incorporates many lyrical elements from the Led Zeppelin song, Stairway to
Heaven (if that helps to explain the title) much of which Robert Plant similarly
appropriated from Tolkien.

22" x
28", Acrylic on stretched canvas

Down
by the Old Mill Stream, 2006 I painted
this one for my girlfriend's mom and gave her a really great deal!Want a really
great deal on a mural? I dunno, first
I'll have to get a look
at your daughter...